Monday, December 31, 2012
'No one that we knew in the neighborhood had to be alone or hungry this Christmas.'
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- Nathan Dean
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Monday, December 31, 2012
There are plenty of scary things in our world, so I wanted to share with you something good and beautiful. Several things came together to make something special happen in our neighborhood this Christmas. A homeless man in our church named Darrell, who was going to be alone on Christmas, volunteered to spend his Christmas serving others and some neighbors from Inman Park, Edgewood and East Lake. He volunteered to make food for people on Christmas. The result was that Darrell was able to open the doors of the church on Christmas Day for anyone we knew who would be hungry and or alone on Christmas to enjoy an amazing Christmas meal with other people provided by some of our neighbors. Thanks to the generosity of people who were almost all …
New Year's Eve brings out an odd Southern tradition: Celebratory gunfire.
At first I thought I was dreaming. But drip, drip, drip of rainwater hit my forehead with enough regularity to wake me up from my sleep. So I stared at the ceiling, grumbled, got the bucket and pushed the bed out of the way. The roofer who came to fix the leak a few days later put a small piece of metal in my hand that he extracted from the roof and explained it was the genesis of what had become a fairly sizable hole. "What is it," I asked him. "It's a bullet," he answered with a look that suggested he thought I was some sort of bumpkin for not knowing. "Well, how did it get up there," I asked. "New Year's probably. People shoot their guns for New Year's Eve to ring in the new year." Funny, up until then, I only saw people in the Middle …
Atlanta and DeKalb County want you to know about adjustments to your solid waste collection schedule over the New Year's Day holiday.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
by Patch Staff ATLANTA There will be no collection on Tuesday, which is New Year's Day. Pickups will be delayed by one day after the holiday for the remainder of the week. The schedule is as follows: DEKALB COUNTY
MARTA is offering event rail service to get customers to their destinations. Additional staff and police will be on hand to assist patrons.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Your guide to which eateries are open to ring in 2013 in East Atlanta Patch.
Here's what open for New Year's Eve in East Atlanta Patch neighborhoods (And please remember, Don't Drink & Drive, which costs Georgia taxpayers $1.3 billion a year.):
After thousands of votes from across the country, Joseph Felix's home was crowned the best decked house in the country and the winner of $100,000 for local schools.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
In this year's Deck the House contest, the second time was the charm. Joseph Felix's Dallas home outshined the other 24 finalists to win the 2012 Deck the House contest and $100,000 for Paulding County Schools. After placing second in the nationwide voting in the 2011 contest, the Felix home in Dallas, Ga., received nearly 11,000 votes this year to finally win Deck the House. The home, with 100,000 computer animated holiday lights choreographed to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," received about 300 more votes than a home in Coventry, R.I., which finished in second place. Judging by the 80 comments on the Felixes' Deck the House submission, visiting the home has become a holiday tradition in Paulding County. Many people …
Friday, December 28, 2012
Grant Park Conservancy to hold "Bring One for the Chipper" event Jan. 5.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Péralte Paul
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Friday, December 28, 2012
The Grant Park Conservancy is holding its annual Bring One for the Chipper reycling event on Saturday, Jan. 5. Bring your undecorated tree to the south end of the Boulevard parking lot entrance to Grant Park between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Those trees will be ground up into mulch to be used in the park. The Conservancy, which is hopoing to surpass last year's donations of 200 trees, also is offering a 20 percent discount of the price of membership to those who drop off their tree. If you don't have time to bring the tree to the park yourself, you can help Cub Scout Pack 688, which will pick up the tree as part of a fundraising drive. For $10, Cub Scout Pack 688 will pick up the tree from your home to deliver it to he park. To have the Cub Souts …
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Sometimes, all it takes is moment to make a priceless gift.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Children all over the world awaited Santa Claus and his bag of toys. But as this photo from our friends at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta shows, the greatest gift of all can simply be that of kindness, care and friendshp.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
A partial list of where to go if you don't want to eat at home.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
by Patch Staff Looking for restaurants that will be open Christmas night? Here's a partial list from opentable.com:
Monday, December 24, 2012
Atlanta and DeKalb County want you to know about adjustments to your solid waste collection schedule over the Christmas holiday.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
by Patch Staff ATLANTA There will be no collection on Tuesday, which is Christmas Day. Pickups will be delayed by one day after the holiday for the remainder of the week. The schedule is as follows: DEKALB COUNTY
Anna Varela
10:49 am on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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